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URGENT REQUEST 🚨

$840 / $2000

($210 / $500 per family)

$1160 needed before tomorrow (Friday)!

If you're reading this, have you shared or donated yet?

These 4 families in Gaza, totaling 36 members, are forced to rely on mutual aid for survival. The largest family needs $500 a week to survive on just $5 a day per person, and that's not including the fees to cash funds in Gaza.

Consider what you can skip each week to help these families. If 100 people saved $20 a week to donate, or if 25 people recruited 4 others each to do the same, we could meet our goal to provide essential funds for these families every week.

🥘 Cost per meal with NO meat ≈ 100 NIS

🐓 Cost of frozen chicken breast = 40 NIS / kilo

🍼 1 pack of diapers + 1 can of formula ≈ 130 NIS

💧 1 meal per day with NO meat, water, firewood for one month ≈ 4500 NIS

💰 4500 NIS = $1225

Donate now and help share the link to meet the goal for this week:

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(Ranting about a comment I saw on TikTok.)

I genuinely need people to stop blaming ancient Greek religion/the gods for ancient Greek societal conventions like infanticide, slavery, and misogyny.

Exposed infants were protected by Kourotrophos gods!

Versions of the gods exist who were liberators of enslaved persons!

Women undeniably found the most freedom in the religious sphere!

For all of ancient Greece's sociocultural conservatism, the gods virtually demanded that worshippers subvert customs. In the words of my professor, "The Greek gods are a lot more progressive than you'd expect from the conservative ancient Greeks."

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practicing drawing again and drew hermes this time 🫶🏼

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i was in the grocery store and saw an onion on the ground and picked it up, absently saying “poor little guy.” behind me a teenage girl started laughing and then stopped and went “aww. i’m sorry for laughing. that’s nice actually.” and the cycle of cruelty is broken for another generation as a young person realizes that it is not embarrassing to have empathy for another thing that was once living, because certainly to be a lone white onion rolling on the ground in a supermarket would be terrifying to anyone

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Other people: so and so are making fun of you/talking shit about you Me: no, Athene and Hermes are making fun of you/talking shit about you /hj

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Travel and tell no one. Live a true love story and tell no one. Live happily and tell no one. People ruin beautiful things.

Khalil Gibran

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I detest those pretentious posts people make that boil down to, "lol, if you see something like a deer in a cemetery, it's stupid to romanticize it because it's just a dumb animal. It's not an old god or a faerie or a spirit, that's cringey."

Do you not see gods in the wildlife around you? Do you not see the divine in the ground you walk on, the air you breathe, the sun warming your skin? Do you not feel the thrumming heartbeat of all your ancestors, deep in your chest?

Do you truly see no beauty in the small, quiet places?

Does it bring you joy to be so callous to those who do?

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The Toy Story movies were my animism awakening ngl

I wonder how many animistic pagans and witches started out with believing our stuffed animals have souls.

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✨Divination Sale✨

Hey guys! Money is tight right now, and I’m solidly too autistic to work. So I’m going to cut my divination prices in half for the next couple of months in hopes of making my life a little bit easier.

In case you don’t know, I run a divination blog over at @redclowndivination. I sell tarot readings ranging from one to five cards (with single cards always being free), as well as Blind Spindle Readings, a form of divination I’ve developed where I make designs in a dish of flour, salt, or sand with a drop spindle and interpret them.

I use the Nicoletta Ceccoli deck, which lends itself to surreal and intuitive readings with nontraditional imagery. I’ve never had any complaints, and I get especially good responses from the spindle readings.

With the price reduction, my prices are as follows:

1 card readings are obviously still free :)

2 card readings are $5 USD instead of $10 USD

3 card readings are $7.50 USD instead of $15 USD

5 card Spiritual Path readings are $10 USD instead of $20 USD

Blind Spindle Readings are $7.50 USD instead of $15 USD

Here are some links to my pages: Pricing/Spreads/Options | Guidelines | About me | How to request a reading | Disclaimer

Please open my links in desktop or your browser app, since Tumblr mobile tends to mess them up!

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NEWBIE NEEDS HELP

Hello all. Very new and currently reaserching. Looking for guidance and reading materials. I will give some backround info, the reason I'm reaserching, and what I have consumed already.

Backround on me. I am an Italian American, mostly southern Italian, primarily Sicily. (As far as I know, i will be takeing an ancestory DNA test soon) My family was running from organized crime and wanted to "americanize" fast so I did not really grow up culturally scicilian. I grew up catholic. I generally consider myself an architypical theist. I am not opposed to others views and practices like some people that use a similar identity. I have been passively practicing various traditions at my leisure for a few years now. Some inspiration from Wicca, the Heathen Reconstruction Movement, and more modern eclectic writers like Mat Auryn's "Psychic Witch." With all that being said I am a casual practioner of witchcraft at best but am very much convinced of a creator diety.

Recently I have came across itallian folk traditions and found striking similarities with my family and "what we did in Sicily" as my grandpa would say. About 2 years ago there was a lot of random shitty things happening in the family. My grandpa instructed my sister to gift me a cornicello neclace because he thought this is the work of the Mal'occhio. (he pernounced it ma-luk-e-a) Ever since I've worn it everyday. After a recent death in the family I decided to research this further and came across a YouTube video by Chaotic Witch Aunt that was a kind of "beginners guide," from here is where my general research has taken off from. I noticed, in my family, a focus on saint veneration, saint punishing, Mal'occhio, and stories of my great Grandfather describing a kind of shamanism in his "pinwheel village". My guess is that my recent family partook in a type of Benidictaria. And yes I know they would not have called themselves that as far as I know everyone has been Devote catholics, even though they don't really act like devote catholics. I COULD BE WRONG OFC.

Some of the stuff I consumed so far is various blog posts and reddit threads relating to symbolism, charms, icons.., the previously mentioned YouTube video, a interview with Angela Buca from Chaotic Witch Aunt, I started reading "itallian witchcraft" by Raven Gramassi (taking it with a grain of salt), and I will occasionally crack into the 13 part paper "Spells, Saints, and Strege." By Sabina Magliocco, not much yet though.

My to read list is this right now.

Finishing Sabinas paper.

The things we do, Augustino Taumaturgo.

Aradia, Charles Leland. Stregheria, Leland.

Etruscan magic and occult remedies, Leland.

Pre prints that Angela Buca has made available.

My goal here is more so in the realm of reconstruction, history, and gathering more info. I have made the decision to experiment with saint veneration since it is somthing I have done in the past and somthing that feels natural to me. I do not want to jump into a new practice all willy nilly without the proper reaserch.

Looking for more reading materials, guidance on prioritizing the materials I already have listed, general advice to newcomers into the community, personal stories of your practice or relationship with italian folk traditions, and a reason why everyone seems to hate Gramassi haha.

Sorry this post is so long I felt it necessary to explain my intentions and where the come from. I understand that this is a diverse and nuanced community and subject to research.

Feel free to reach out in DMs aslo.

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e-offering to Lady Hekate for this new Deipnon .ೃ࿐

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What it's like trying to learn about the Occult

Trying to learn more about the occult is so intimidating. I am trying to gather as much knowledge as I can, but there is so much reading material. Like for most other western religions it's "𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬. 𝘙𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘪𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴." But for the occult it's "𝘏𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘭𝘥 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘺. 𝘔𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘯 𝘰𝘶𝘵. 𝘈𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘵 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳. 𝘚𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘰𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘣𝘪𝘨𝘰𝘵𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘶𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘥. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘵���𝘦𝘳."

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Not long after I penned this piece on an Italian folk magic charm, I received an email from my great aunt. She is currently 93 and the self proclaimed “elder” of the family. My aunt Anna is stubborn, outspoken, spirited, and proud — though we may have our differences and more than half a century between us, we have always bonded over our love of history. In this email, my aunt Anna told me she read my article and was ecstatic that I was interested in our family’s southern Italian culture — specifically the magic.

If anyone is interested in reading about living memories of Italian folk magic, I've written a reflection about my own more recent journey with witchcraft.

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"Asexuality is a sexuality and as a whole is not inherently rooted in mental health problems or hormone problems and thus should not be pathologized."

And

"Some people who use the label asexual are asexual due to trauma, mental health conditions, or medications/hormonal problems and they should always be welcome within the asexual community."

Are two concepts that can and should coexist.

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Your deities love you.

Haven’t tidied their altars in forever? They understand.

Don’t have the motivation to give them offerings? They get it.

You haven’t left bed for a long time? They still care about you.

Aren’t devoting time to them lately? They don’t mind

Forgot an offering? That’s alright. They forgive you.

Fucked something up? They’re not going to ditch you for your mistakes.

Decide to take a break from deity work? Totally cool, they’ll still be here for you.

Your deities understand your struggles. Even your mental health related issues. They get it, and they love you regardless. Just do your best for them, and they’ll appreciate it. 

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Like any other magical tool, crystals may or may not vibe with you as a practitioner. You may not have a need for crystals the same way another practitioner may not need an athame or a wand. If the tool doesn’t resonate with you then it’s probably going to feel silly trying to use it in your practice.

I come from an animist perspective where I believe that everything that comes from nature, be it alive or not, has a soul. So for me trying to work with crystals (or any other rock for that matter) in the way that New Age thought applies it (i.e. they have to be “programmed” and “charged” like some kind of technological device) never really made sense. (Not invalidating those who do work with crystals in that way, it just doesn’t click with me.) I’ve found that communicating with the crystals as I would any other herbal or spirit ally, talking to them and building a personal relationship has had way more of a positive affect on my practice.

Also, despite what witchy consumerism may say, you don’t have to spend a whole bunch of money to use fancy cut crystals if you don’t want to. Quartz and Jasper can be found in almost any natural setting for free. I’ve also found various agates, raw amethyst, and moonstone by various natural water sources. Also depending on where you live, sand on the beach is primarily made of Quartz, meaning that sand is a crystal! (This depends on what coast you’re on. Double check locally if this applies to you!) ALSO also, regular rocks have just as much magical capacity as your fancy witch-store crystals do, and may or may not resonate more.

TLDR: the short answer is no, I don’t think crystals are a scam. They may not vibe with you and that’s totally ok. Unless anyone’s saying that 1) you HAVE to use crystals to be a witch and 2) you HAVE to get the super fancy ones from a store and pay a bunch of money for them, then that would be getting into scammier territory. But all in all if you like the fun rocks use the fun rocks. If you don’t, don’t! :)

Hey witches, are crystals a fucking scam?

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If u r a

magical practitioner or witch,

a folk practitioner of any variety,

spirit worker

a disabled witch/practitioner

mentally ill practitioner,

a hellenic polytheist,

or a kemetic polytheist

pls like or rb this!!

Need to expand my circle, both in terms of ppl to follow as well as mutuals to build friendships with!